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Forum Topic - QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown: (14 Items)
   
QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
Hi
   I am testing QNX4.25 on VMware esix4. I installed it and everything seems to be working ok. I have been testing 
different applications and all of them perform just as is they were running on physical machines. The problem I have is 
when remote clients connect to the QNX host using phindows to use some data display applications. The connections feel 
very slow in comparison to running the host on a physical machine. The host for the virtual machines is has much better 
hardware but still it feels very slow. Does anyone has an idea why this happens? Is it maybe the video driver (I am 
using a vmware video driver)? One thing I notice is when the clients connect the cpu on the virtual host starts working 
really hard.

  Thanks in advance for your help
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
It may be the virtual network card on the host (the host software emulating
the network card) is really working hard.  Phindows is pretty network
intensive (depending how much things change on your screen) and since you
are using fake network hardware, it is a lot of work for the host.
Just a thought.

Rick..

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ernesto Juarez
<community-noreply@qnx.com>wrote:

> Hi
>   I am testing QNX4.25 on VMware esix4. I installed it and everything seems
> to be working ok. I have been testing different applications and all of them
> perform just as is they were running on physical machines. The problem I
> have is when remote clients connect to the QNX host using phindows to use
> some data display applications. The connections feel very slow in comparison
> to running the host on a physical machine. The host for the virtual machines
> is has much better hardware but still it feels very slow. Does anyone has an
> idea why this happens? Is it maybe the video driver (I am using a vmware
> video driver)? One thing I notice is when the clients connect the cpu on the
> virtual host starts working really hard.
>
>  Thanks in advance for your help
>
> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32006
>
>


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Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
I will try to use a different virtual nic to see if that makes a difference. I am using the one by default and I think 
is getting only 10mbps connection I wil try to use the other options and check if the performance on the clients 
improves.

  Does anyone have experience using the E1000 virtual nic with QNX4?

RE: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
I think vmware e1000 support is only available for 64 bit OSes.  Don`t worry that the AMD (pcnet) driver shows 10Mbits, 
it will go faster.

________________________________________
From: Ernesto Juarez [community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:54 PM
To: general-vmware
Subject: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

I will try to use a different virtual nic to see if that makes a difference. I am using the one by default and I think 
is getting only 10mbps connection I wil try to use the other options and check if the performance on the clients 
improves.

  Does anyone have experience using the E1000 virtual nic with QNX4?



_______________________________________________
General
http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32014
Re: RE: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
Hi

   There is a driver for the e1000 nic for qnx 4.25 I tried it and it did improve a little the speed. I guess phindows 
is really heavy on the nics
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
How did you managed it to install QNX4.25 into ESX4?
I made it with ESX3.5 and it was a pain with uploading manually changed *.vmx and *.vmdk files.
Actually I can use my QNX4.25 in the ESX-Server but I cannot change the settings using the VMWare Infrastructure GUI. 
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
I started with a fresh install for the QNX 4.25
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
And what kind of Fsys.* you are using?
The ESX3.5 offers only SCSI environment.
But you can manually add an ide harddisk.
With the LSI or Buslogic SCSI environment I had no chance.
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
That is the nice thing esxi 3.4 also has IDE
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
Do you know where I can download esxi3.4 from the vmware page?
My dirty hack is working with the ypervisor but not with the windows setup tool.
When I select "Edit Settings" and press "Save" the QNX4 vmware becames invalid.
I expect that I only should use the old GUI. I saw a similar behaviour with the VMware workstation running on a SATA 
laptop in linux. The IDE was not offeres but after the manual add in the *.vmx the GUI suddenly offered the IDE also ;)
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
I downloaded it from http://vmware.com/download/esxi/
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
There are only links to 3.5 :(
No previous veriosn of ESXi I find there.
Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
This is where I downloaded esxi 3.4. see attached image
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Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown  
Thanks a lot!
I read your post wrong. You are using ESXi4 and not ESXi3.4.
Tomorrow I will switch to 64bit Hardware and use ESXi4, too.